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            Villard de Honnecourt, architecte du XIIIe siècle

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            Author(s)
            Wirth, Jean
            Collection
            OAPEN-CH 1st Call; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
            Language
            French
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            Abstract
            The only document we have by a 13th-century architect, the Album of Villard de Honnecourt has been the subject of writings by art and architectural historians since the 19th century and has been considered the work of an amateur since the 1970s. Jean Wirth sheds new light on the question, based on a philological study of the manuscript, and proves that Villard himself is the author of the technical drawings relating to construction. He goes on to provide convincing analyses of the art of drawing and its numerous applications, from drawing from nature to architectural plans. Drawings relating to engineering, geometry and stereotomy are treated individually, in order to convey as clearly as possible the technical processes they illustrate. An examination of the architect’s travels, the monuments he saw and his stylistic evolution allows for an accurate, corrected chronology of this work, previously considered outdated. This intelligent and detailed study will be a landmark in the rehabilitation of Villard de Honnecourt’s reputation.
             
            L'Album de Villard de Honnecourt est le seul document personnel que nous ait laissé un architecte du XIIIe siècle. Connu et exploité par les historiens de l'art et de l'architecture dès le XIXe siècle, il a été considéré comme l'œuvre d'un amateur depuis les années 1970. Jean Wirth reprend le problème à partir de l'étude philologique des écritures contenues dans le manuscrit et montre qu'il faut attribuer à Villard les pages dont les dessins techniques relatifs à la construction passaient pour l'œuvre d'un continuateur. Dans une série de chapitres alertes, il analyse ensuite l'art du dessin et son adaptation à la multiplicité des tâches, du dessin d'après nature au relevé architectural. Les dessins relatifs à l'ingénierie, à la géométrie et à la stéréotomie sont traités un à un, afin de clarifier autant que possible les procédés techniques qu'ils transmettent. L’examen des déplacements de l’architecte, des monuments qu'il a vus et de son évolution stylistique mène ensuite à une rectification de la chronologie de son œuvre qu'on croyait retardataire. Cette étude s’affirme avec intelligence et précision comme une réhabilitation de Villard de Honnecourt ; elle fera date.
             
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            https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/189103
            Keywords
            dessin; history of technics; reims cathedral; art gothique; gothic art; middle ages; histoire des techniques; villard de honnecourt; drawing; hungary; cathédrale de chartres; architecture; cathédrale de reims; moyen age; history of art; histoire de l'art; hongrie; chartres cathedral; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDF France; thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AD Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages::2ADF French; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500::3KL c 1000 CE to c 1500; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art; thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6M Styles (M)::6MB Medieval style; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMB Individual architects and architectural firms
            DOI
            10.26530/OAPEN_579631
            ISBN
            9782600005586
            Publisher
            Librairie Droz
            Publisher website
            www.droz.org/
            Publication date and place
            Genève, 2015
            Series
            Titre courant,
            Pages
            384
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